Nuno J. Silva wrote:
On 2011-06-25, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 06/25/2011 02:09 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
I see font embedding as a way to make interoperation easier, and not to
achieve faithful representation. I think a major goal is to have ODF
being used on several platforms, and available fonts differ from
platform to platform. OTOH I guess LibO can (and probably already does?)
bundle some fonts with it, so that the default fonts are available on
every install of LibO (but this still excludes other ODF-compatible
applications).
I always wondered how embedding fonts worked from a copyright
perspective. I use my favorite special font that I purchased for my
own use, then I create a document that uses (and embeds) that font in
the document.
At least the TrueType format has an "embeddable flag", which should say
whether the font can be shared, embed in a document, etc.:
,----[http://enwp.org/TrueType#Embedding_protection]
| Embedding protection
|
| The TrueType format allows for the most basic type of digital rights
| management – an embeddable flag that specifies if author allows
| embedding of the font file into things like PDF files and
| websites.[...]
`----
An ideal approach would be raising a warning when embedding a
"protected" font in a forbidden way.
But of course this wouldn't suit the hungry US legislation -- there LibO
would probably need to completely forbid embedding "protected" fonts
(even if there is no way to know if the document with embed fonts is
going to be shared).
I think it would be best if restricted fonts were simply "Grayed out" in
the font listing and LO simply refused to use them in any way.
See http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2402 for an example
of DMCA in action.
I think that, in case LibO embeds fonts, this _just_ means LibO must
respect that bit. But I might be wrong.
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